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Packers' Next Challenge:
Keeping Team Together

Updated Jan. 27, 1997 7:47 p.m. ET

NEW ORLEANS -- The Green Bay Packers are an anachronism, a throwback to the days when professional football was a game by and for factory workers and flourished in gritty places like Canton, Ohio, and Portsmouth, N.H. Their colors are basic green and yellow -- no stylish teals. Their patron saint is Vince Lombardi, a coach who glowered from under the stocking cap he wore low upon his head when the air turned frosty. He barked orders and brooked no showboating within his line of vision.